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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
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- From: brianm@cc.gatech.edu (Brian N. Miller)
- Subject: Re: member test?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.171341.24688@cc.gatech.edu>
- Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu
- Reply-To: brianm@cc.gatech.edu (Brian N. Miller)
- Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Nov6.081658.29693@bernina.ethz.ch> <EB.92Nov9085335@ascent.ascent.com> <1992Nov10.070124.5763@jyu.fi>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:13:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.070124.5763@jyu.fi> sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) writes:
- >
- >C++ is almost the only OOPL
- >I know of in which you cannot ask the dynamic type of an object.
-
- Yeah, that is kind of anoying.
-
- If we only had source level read permission on an object's virtual function
- table (VFT), we could do alot at run and compile time, like determine the
- class of an object or determine if two classes have the same implementation
- of a common method.
-
- Of course writable VFT's are a whole nother matter.
-